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Kerry testing waters for ’08 presidential bid Sen. John Kerry is considering another run for the presidency. Political sources said Mr. Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat and the party’s 2004 presidential nominee, has been urged to declare himself a candidate in 2007 to prevent Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton from becoming a shoo-in for the Democratic Party’s 2008 nomination.The sources said Kerry supporters are convinced that Mrs. Clinton of New York does not have the background or expertise to make major decisions on national security, particularly regarding the war on terrorism.“There are many who feel that Hillary must be given a hard time...

WASHINGTON -- Senator Edward M. Kennedy said yesterday that if fellow Massachusetts Democrat John F. Kerry makes another bid for the presidency in 2008, he would again back him. "If he runs, I'm supporting him," Kennedy said in an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press." With Kennedy's help, Kerry won the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, but lost the race to President Bush. Kerry said last week he was taking a hard look at making another run for the White House in 2008 and intended to make a decision near the end of the year.

April 23, 2006 — In an exclusive interview, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., told ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" that the latest purported recording from Osama bin Laden "underscores the failure of [the Bush] administration to capture" the terror leader. "Osama Bin Laden is loose today because we allowed him to escape at Tora Bora," said Kerry, echoing a statement often heard during his failed 2004 presidential bid.

John Kerry has been really pretty doggone busy lately, out there on the hustings in his native, or is it naïve, Beantown, dragging himself from one declamation to the next. Formerly known as "Live Shot," he regularly stuck his hirsute and finely coiffed snoot in front of every local camera he could locate--gathered to cover the collapse of a set of bleachers in an itinerant circus, the escape of an insatiate pet constrictor, the opening of the latest E-Z pass tollbooth on the Pike, a dumpster fire in the Back Bay, the mauling of an errant penguin by a tiger...

Unfit for Command Once again John Kerry sides with the enemy. Did I say enemy? Yes. Anyone, like Mary McCarthy, who uses her public trust to undermine the war on terrorism is the enemy. The Washington Post can wrap itself and its source in civil liberties, but the public rightly won't buy it. These prisons in Europe reportedly exist to interrogate and house al Qaeda terrorists. While people may disagree over the war in Iraq, almost nobody disagrees that al-Qaeda must be destroyed. The Democrat party is clearly lining up behind McCarthy now. The talking points have already been issued....